From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Sep 4 08:35:42 2010 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by cozumel.ust.hk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o840Zeuf010306 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:35:41 +0800 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o83JrHJh019570; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:35:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3223176 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:35:13 -0500 Received: from relay08.cites.uiuc.edu (relay08.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.9]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o840ZDTR019621 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:35:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay08.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o840Z6mq009596 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:35:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id DD6344050020; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:35:06 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Details: rule=no-quarantine_notspam policy=no-quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1009030185 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100904003506.DD6344050020@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:35:06 -0500 Reply-To: wxmaster@COX.NET Sender: WX-TROPL Tropical Storm and Hurricane WX products From: LDM Weather Subject: Central Pacific: Satellite Interpretation Message To: WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Precedence: list 078 ATHW40 PHFO 040035 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0030 UTC SAT SEP 04 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0000 UTC SEPTEMBER 04 2010 WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SHARPENING OVER THE REGION BETWEEN THE WINDWARD SIDE OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLAND CHAIN AND 800 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. ANOTHER TROUGH IS CENTERED NORTH OF 30N NEAR 168W BUT THE TROUGH AXIS STRETCHES SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE FAR NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS CONNECTING TO AN UPPER LOW NEAR 21N175W. BETWEEN THESE TROUGHS...A SHARP NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS POSITIONED ALONG 162W...OR ABOUT 200 MILES WEST OF KAUAI. DEEP MOIST CONVECTION IS LIMITED TO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA...SOUTH OF 12N...NEAR THE INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE WHICH IS JUST SOUTH OF 10N. INFRARED IMAGERY SHOWS A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH TOPS ABOVE 40000 FEET NEAR 10N142W AND BETWEEN 160W AND THE DATELINE BETWEEN 10N TO 12N. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE AREA...SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW TOPPED STRATOCUMULUS DOMINATES. THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF THESE CLOUDS IS NORTH OF 20N BETWEEN 165W AND 140W...AND INCLUDES THE WATERS SURROUNDING THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. OVER THE BIG ISLAND...BROKEN TO OVERCAST LOW CLOUDS COVERS THE LOWER SLOPES BELOW 8000 FEET FROM THE WAIKOLOA VILLAGE SOUTH TO SOUTH POINT AND ALONG THE KAU DISTRICT FROM SOUTH POINT TO NEAR VOLCANO. ANOTHER DECK OF BROKEN LOW CLOUDS STRETCHES FROM THE PUNA DISTRICT ACROSS HILO AND ALONG THE WINDWARD LOWER SLOPES NORTHWARD TO WAIPIO VALLEY. OVER THE SMALL ISLANDS...SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS ARE SKIRTING HALEAKALA/S SLOPES ON ALL SIDES...AND THESE ARE LOCALLY DRIFTING OFF THE LEEWARD COAST REACHING KAHOOLAWE. A SMALL PATCH OF LOW CLOUDS IS FOUND OVER THE MOUNTAINOUS EASTERN PORTION OF MOLOKAI. MORE EXTENSIVE LOW CLOUDS COVERS THE KOOLAU MOUNTAINS OF OAHU AS WELL AS THE WAIANAE MOUNTAINS AND COAST. THESE CLOUDS ARE ALSO DRIFTING OVER THE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT LEEWARD OAHU COASTAL WATERS. SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS ARE HANGING ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF KAUAI AND OVER THE LEEWARD COAST AND WATERS...REACHING NIIHAU AS WELL. THE CLOUD TOPS OVER THE STATE ARE ESTIMATED BY SATELLITE TO BE BETWEEN 8000 AND 10000 FEET...WITH CLOUD MOVEMENT TO THE WEST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. $$ BRENCHLEY +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from WX-TROPL send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU with "unsub wx-tropl" in the body of your message. For help with WX-TROPL write to cnovy@cox.net. For more information on tropical weather products, see the NHC Homepage at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov.